![]() This is part of the reason why such instruments sound pleasant. For musical instruments and other objects that vibrate in regular and periodic fashion, the harmonic frequencies are related to each other by simple whole number ratios. At any frequency other than a harmonic frequency, the resulting disturbance of the medium is irregular and non-repeating. These patterns are only created within the object or instrument at specific frequencies of vibration these frequencies are known as harmonic frequencies, or merely harmonics. Each natural frequency that an object or instrument produces has its own characteristic vibrational mode or standing wave pattern. ![]() Whether it is a guitar sting, a Chladni plate, or the air column enclosed within a trombone, the vibrating medium vibrates in such a way that a standing wave pattern results. ![]() Previously in Lesson 4, it was mentioned that when an object is forced into resonance vibrations at one of its natural frequencies, it vibrates in a manner such that a standing wave pattern is formed within the object. ![]()
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